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93-509: Blakes was launched in 1856 after Dominick Edward Blake was called to the bar and entered into partnership with Stephen M. Jarvis in Toronto. Soon it was Blake & Blake when brother Samuel Hume Blake joined. In 1867, Blakes incorporated what would become Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce . The bank remains one of the firm's oldest clients. In 1878, Blakes was the first business in Canada to install

186-402: A collector of assessments . Some of the funds he collected for the municipality were mixed with his business bank accounts, and in 1836 some of the funds in these accounts were lost in business speculations. Peter was not accused of corruption, but he sought to repair his reputation and recoup the lost funds. He attempted to collect from people he lent money to but was unable to after the onset of

279-661: A rotary press , the first press of this type used in Upper Canada. This purchase increased his printer's efficiency and allowed Brown to create a book publishing and printing office business. Although George was focused on politics, he still wrote articles for the Banner and travelled in July to Kingston to report on the Canadian Synod for the Church of Scotland. After the meeting, Brown sat on

372-592: A wholesale business in Edinburgh and managed a glassworks in Alloa. His mother was Marianne ( née Mackenzie). George was their eldest son; he had two older sisters, two younger sisters and four younger brothers, although three of the brothers died in infancy. He was baptised in St. Cuthbert's Chapel of Ease . He lived in Alloa until he moved to Edinburgh before he turned eight. He attended Royal High School , then transferred to

465-407: A by-election, as was required by law. On August 2, the parliament passed an amendment stating that they did not approve of the administration, and Brown asked Head to call a general election. Head declined Brown's request, and on August 4, Brown resigned as co-Premier. Macdonald and Cartier were able to form a new ministry with Alexander Tilloch Galt . On August 28, Brown won the by-election that

558-504: A cabinet factory to recover from financial difficulties, but gained a profit from his mills which sold hardwood to American lumber-dealers. Brown became sick in 1859 and its residual effects continued into 1860, exasperated by the stress of leading the Reform faction in parliament and growing financial concerns with his businesses. Brown's health deteriorated and in the winter of 1861, he stayed in his bed for over two months to recover, missing

651-402: A candidate because he wanted to help his father pay off his financial debts and focus on improving his newspapers. Reformers were mostly unsuccessful in the election, with many prominent members not returning to the legislature. In the summer of 1845, Brown put his father in charge of The Globe and travelled to Southwestern Ontario to increase subscriptions to his paper. He discovered that

744-526: A holiday to Scotland. In 1866, Brown bought an estate near Brantford , Upper Canada, and herded shorthorn cattle . He continued writing and editing the Globe and was consulted by Grit officials in issues concerning provincial and Canadian politics. Brown fought numerous battles with the typographical union from 1843 to 1872. He was forced to pay union wages after tense negotiations and strikes. In 1874, Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie asked Brown to negotiate

837-515: A major role in exposing the government of Sir John A. Macdonald 's complicity in the Pacific Scandal forcing the government's resignation. Blake was offered the prime ministership, but turned it down due to ill health. When the Liberals won the subsequent 1874 federal election , Blake joined the cabinet of Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie and served as Minister of Justice and President of

930-632: A new reciprocity treaty with the US. He negotiated with the United States Secretary of State Hamilton Fish from February until June 18, when a draft of their treaty was proposed in the US Congress. The Congress did not pass the bill into law and it was set aside when Congress adjourned four days after the treaty was proposed. Brown was appointed to the Canadian senate in 1874 and attended his first session

1023-661: A political deadlock, especially if different parties held a majority of seats in each body. The result of the Quebec Conference was the Quebec Resolutions . Brown presented the Quebec Resolutions in a speech in Toronto on November 3. Later that month, he travelled to England to begin discussions with British officials about Canadian confederation, the integration of the North West Territories into Canada, and

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1116-484: A political rivalry to deepen between Brown and Macdonald. Brown helped organize a political convention on January 8, 1857, to unite his followers with Clear Grits and Liberals who left the Hincks administration. Brown served as one of the meeting's "joint secretaries of the local committee". This convention marked the Reform party's transition away from a radicalism and towards a political ideology more closely aligned with

1209-487: A program that provides access to legal services for emerging technology companies. Edward Blake Dominick Edward Blake PC KC (October 13, 1833 – March 1, 1912), known as Edward Blake , was the second premier of Ontario , from 1871 to 1872 and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1880 to 1887. He is one of three federal permanent Liberal leaders never to become Prime Minister of Canada ,

1302-510: A religious separate school system and endorsed representation by population in the legislature. His newspaper, the Globe , still had widespread circulation and on October 1 started publishing every day as the Daily Globe to compete with other newspapers who had previously started to publish daily. Brown's support deteriorated when scandals against Hincks were reported in the fall of 1853 and Brown toured Canada West, demanding new leadership for

1395-463: A rival Reform newspaper called Pilot was selling copies at a lower rate and people did not want to subscribe to more than one paper. Brown appealed to Reform leaders, who convinced Francis Hincks , the editor of Pilot , to raise the cost of his paper. In October, Brown published the first edition of Western Globe in London, Canada West , which combined editorials from The Globe with local stories from

1488-483: A select committee to investigate the sectional problems in Canada and try to find a solution, and the bill for this committee's creation passed in spring 1864. Under his chairmanship, the committee reported on June 14 a strong preference for a new federal system of government. That same day, the MacDonald- Taché administration was dissolved. Brown stated that he would support any administration that committed to solving

1581-666: A series of articles called "A Tour of Canada" were published in the same writing style of Brown's later articles while Brown was in Canada. Peter Brown supported the evangelical faction during the Disruption of 1843 within the Church of Scotland . These members separated from the Church of Scotland in May 1843 and formed the Free Church of Scotland . While George was touring Canada, they asked him to present an offer to his father: to move publication of

1674-723: A settlement of escaped slaves in Buxton from hostile white inhabitants in Kent . He was also an executive member of the Anti-Slavery Society of Canada. Throughout the Province of Canada 's existence, Brown advocated against dissolving the union. In the 1850s he was worried that a dissolved union would cause the St Lawrence River, a major thorough way for trade, to be hampered by the two jurisdictions imposing different rules on their section of

1767-516: A telephone system that provided a direct link to the offices of the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada at Osgoode Hall. In 1882, Zebulon Aiton Lash joined Blakes and began building a corporate law practice. By 1885, with 15 lawyers, Blakes was among the largest corporate law firms in the young Canadian Confederation . In 1894, Clara Brett Martin articled at Blakes. She

1860-505: A way to ensure the French population did not have out-sized power. He wanted to maintain the defensive and trade advantages that a unified province would have and looked to incorporate the Maritime provinces into the union. Brown's residence, formerly called Lambton Lodge and now called George Brown House , at 186 Beverley Street, Toronto, was named a National Historic Site of Canada in 1974. It

1953-596: Is now operated by the Ontario Heritage Trust as a conference centre and offices. Brown also maintained an estate, Bow Park, near Brantford, Ontario . Bought in 1826, it was a cattle farm during Brown's time and is currently a seed farm. Toronto's George Brown College (founded 1967) is named after him. A statue of Brown can be found on the front west lawn of Queen's Park and another on Parliament Hill in Ottawa (sculpted by George William Hill in 1913). He

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2046-580: The Bleus of Canada East, as it was the structure that would ensure that the provinces retained sufficient control over local matters to satisfy the need of the French-speaking population in Canada East for jurisdiction over matters that it considered to be essential to its survival. Brown remained a proponent of a stronger central government, with weaker constituent provincial governments. In May and June, Brown

2139-518: The British Chronicle to Upper Canada in exchange for a bond of $ 2500. George supported the proposal, as he felt there were more opportunities to succeed in Canada. He thought that there was hostility towards the paper in New York because of the paper's focus on Britain. Upon meeting Reform politicians in his travels through Canada, George felt that they would support his paper should it relocate to

2232-689: The House of Commons of Canada in 1891. In the 1892 election , Blake entered the British House of Commons as an Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of South Longford in the midlands of Ireland . In 1895, he was appointed to the Royal Commission on the Financial Relations between Great Britain and Ireland, which reported in 1896. Laurier sought several times for Blake's return to Canada by offering him nominations for

2325-523: The Parti Rouge , to criticise the governing coalition. For these efforts, Brown assumed an unofficial role as one of the leaders of the opposition members. He also bought two Grit-aligned newspapers and merged their staffs to his Globe paper. In May 1855, the Canadian legislature passed a bill that allowed the creation of Roman Catholic-based separate school boards in Upper Canada. This was seen as French-Canadian encroachment into Upper Canadian matters, as

2418-701: The Provincial Penitentiary in Portsmouth, Canada West . The commission's report, drafted by Brown in early 1849, documented abuse within the penitentiary perpetrated by its staff members. He recommended changes in the jail's structure such as separating juvenile, first-time, and long-term prisoners and hiring prison inspectors. While the commission was conducting its investigation, the prison's Board of Inspectors resigned and Brown, along with Adam Fergusson and William Bristow . Although initially volunteers, Brown and Bristow were later paid for their work, becoming

2511-746: The Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds (a sinecure office used to effect resignation) and retired to Canada. He is perhaps best remembered for the arguments that he made to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in favour of the Provinces in interpreting the British North America Act . In 1888, he argued the case of St. Catharines Milling v. The Queen in which the federal government

2604-565: The Supreme Court and other judicial appointments. However, Blake felt committed to his new role and was particularly committed to home rule in Ireland . His idea of an Irish nation state within a federal empire met with little support. In May 1907 he suffered a stroke and was partially paralyzed on the left side of his body. He left the British House of Commons in August 1907 upon his appointment as

2697-509: The University of Toronto Library in June 1952. There are also Edward Blake archives at the University of Toronto and Library and Archives Canada . On Mr. Blake's appointment as Minister without Portfolio, 7 November 1873: By-Election: On Mr. Blake's appointment as Minister of Justice, 19 May 1875: George Brown (Canadian politician) George Brown (November 29, 1818 – May 9, 1880)

2790-422: The economic depression in 1837 . Peter decided to emigrate to New York City to seek business opportunities and rebuild his reputation. George accompanied his father to North America, and they left Europe in May 1837. The Browns landed in New York in June 1837. Peter opened a dry goods store on Broadway and George worked as his assistant. The following year, Brown's mother and sisters immigrated to New York and

2883-679: The liberal ideology in Britain . The meeting adopted a new political platform for Reformer that was mostly of the political positions of Brown and his newspaper. An election for the Parliament of the Province of Canada was held in November 1857. Brown did not want to run for the seat in Lambton because its constituency concerns took up much of his time and he wanted to focus on Reform party matters. Brown accepted

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2976-564: The Atlantic provinces. On September 5, 1864, Brown outlined the proposed constitutional structure for the union. The conference accepted the proposal in principle and Brown attended subsequent meetings in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Saint John, New Brunswick to determine the details of the union. During the Quebec Conference , Brown argued for separate provincial and federal governments. He hoped

3069-641: The Fondation du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) and the McGill University Health Centre Foundation's (MUHC) joint corporate campaign to raise funds for university hospitals. In 2013, Blakes assisted the 160 Girls project, an initiative promoted by non-profit organization The Equality Effect, achieve a landmark victory where Kenyan law enforcement officials were ordered to investigate and prosecute crimes of sexual violence. In 2017, Blakes launched Nitro powered by Blakes,

3162-678: The Great Coalition on December 19. Brown renewed relationships with Rouge colleagues to strengthen the Reform party's political prospects in Canada West. He lost an election in Southern Ontario for a seat in the new legislature. He determined that too many Reformers joined Macdonald and the Conservatives during the Great Coalition, and the public supported this non-partisan administration. He declined to run in safer constituencies and went on

3255-470: The Maritime Provinces, the views of French Canadians must be consulted as well as ours. This scheme can be carried, and no scheme can be that has not the support of both sections of the province." Although he supported the idea of a legislative union at the Quebec Conference, Brown was eventually persuaded to favour the federal view of Confederation, which was closer to that supported by Cartier and

3348-532: The McAll Association in Toronto. She also frequently accompanied her husband on his political tours. The couple had seven children, four of whom survived them. Their daughter Sophia Hume Blake married George M. Wrong and was the mother of Hume Wrong . The personal and family papers of Edward Blake can be found at the Archives of Ontario , and the majority of these records were received on indefinite loan from

3441-465: The Nelson's home. The couple departed to Toronto just over a week later. With his health recovered Brown desired to return to politics, but also committed to his wife that his time in politics would be temporary and not his career, as she wanted to spend more time with him. In March 1863 the constituency of South Oxford was to hold a byelection, and Reformers selected Brown as their candidate, even though he

3534-557: The Provincial Parliament ( Durham West and Bruce South ) became leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1868 and premier in 1871, but left provincial politics to run in the 1872 federal election , in which he was re-elected. The " dual mandate " rule that allowed a politician to sit simultaneously in a provincial and federal house had been abolished, and Blake chose to abandon his career in provincial politics. He played

3627-450: The Queen's Privy Council for Canada . From 1876 to 1900, he was the chancellor of the University of Toronto . The Liberals were defeated in the 1878 election , and Blake succeeded Mackenzie as party leader in 1880. He failed to defeat Macdonald's Conservatives in the 1882 or 1887 elections . Blake resigned as Liberal leader in 1887, recruiting Wilfrid Laurier as his successor, and left

3720-537: The Reform party. For the 1854 general election, the constituency he represented was split into two and he decided to run in Lambton , as he was not confident that he could win the other Kent constitutency. At the election's conclusion, Hincks formed a new Liberal-Conservative administration with Allan MacNab , causing Brown to become a member of the opposition. Brown worked with his opposition colleagues, including former Clear Grit rivals, Reformers who abandoned Hincks, and

3813-646: The Reformer candidate; Wilson won the election over Conservative opponents. In 1859 Brown and other Upper Canadian Reformers organised a convention in Toronto to discuss the governance of the province, in the hopes that agreeing to a unified policy would prevent divisions within the movement on the issue. Brown favoured creating a federalist system with the province obtaining more control over its governance, as he felt this system would repel American encroachment into British North American territory west of Upper Canada and restrain his perceived Conservative corruption exampled by

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3906-595: The Southern Academy of Edinburgh. Upon graduation his father wanted George to attend university but George convinced his father to let him work in the family's business. He briefly lived in London to be taught by agents of the business before returning to Edinburgh. He joined the Philo-Lectic Society of Edinburgh, where young men would meet and discuss topics in a parliamentary debate. Brown's father also worked as

3999-562: The Toronto Anti-Clergy Reserves Association in May 1850 to advocate for the abolition of clergy reserves; he did not think French-Canadian reformers would support these measures, but thought that promoting this policy would prevent further Reform defections to the Clear Grits. In April 1851, Brown ran in a byelection to represent Haldimand County in the Canadian parliament but lost to William Lyon Mackenzie . In

4092-558: The Toronto campaign. Brown was elected in both constituencies, and his Reformers won the majority of seats in Canada West. His allies in the Parti Rouge were unsuccessful in Canada East and Brown returned to the legislature as an opposition member. In the legislative session after the election, Brown served as the de facto leader of the opposition. On July 28, 1858, the cabinet of the Macdonald- Cartier administration resigned when

4185-413: The administration. Brown's speech at the convention supporting a federal government was positively received by the delegates, who passed resolutions supporting Brown's favoured policy positions. On April 30, 1860, Brown proposed a bill in the Province of Canada's legislature to form a convention that would discuss federalism. The bill was defeated, but the Reformer's support for federalism was documented in

4278-448: The bill passed without the support of the majority of Upper Canadian parliamentarians. Brown used the event to campaign for representation by population, in which electoral districts would be divided so that each one contained a roughly equal number of electors. Brown's pursuit of that goal of correcting what he perceived to be a great wrong to Canada West was accompanied at times by stridently critical remarks against French Canadians and

4371-432: The buildings on the property. In 1880 the Globe was also struggling financially as Brown paid for updating the newspaper's printing press in order to produce multi-page and machine-folded papers. On March 25, 1880, a former Globe employee, George Bennett , burst into Brown's office; he was recently fired by a foreman and wanted a certificate that showed he had worked for the paper for five years. Brown did not recognise

4464-547: The candidacy nomination for North Oxford because it would have fewer constituency affairs and, since it often elected Liberal candidates, he could campaign for other Liberal candidates elsewhere in the province. In Toronto, a petition circulated for Brown to run for one of its two seats. It was signed by groups that traditionally did not support Reform candidates, such as Orangemen , who felt that Conservative candidates were cooperating too much with French Canadians. Brown decided to run in both constituencies, focusing his attention on

4557-654: The colonies' reciprocity trade agreement with the United States was terminated. During the meeting, Brown spoke with Maritime delegates to gather support for the Canadian confederation, as support for the project was decreasing in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. He supported the council's resolution to pursue trade policies that reduced tariffs with the US. The administration for the Province of Canada disagreed and sought to increase tariffs on American goods. Brown, frustrated with his cabinet colleagues over this issue, resigned from

4650-506: The committee of Free Kirks in Kingston who wanted to secede from the Church of Scotland. In the fall, Brown campaigned for Reform candidates in communities surrounding Toronto. In Halton , Reformers asked Brown to convince one of the three Reform candidates to end their campaign as the county would only elect two candidates and Reformers did not want to split the vote; Brown convinced Caleb Hopkins to end his campaign. Brown declined to run as

4743-753: The concurrence of all of the Dioceses of the Ecclesiastical Province would be required prior to the creation of the Provincial Synod, and therefore no such Synod could legally be convened until the entity first existed. This opinion was read into the Minutes of the seventh session of the Synod of the Diocese of Huron which convened in June 1864. Blake was recruited into active politics by George Brown , elected Member of

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4836-434: The credit for the development of the town of Bothwell, in his constituency of Lambton, and set aside farmland for his own use. In 1856, John A. Macdonald accused Brown of falsifying evidence and coercing witnesses in the Royal Commission on the Kingston Provincial Penitentiary in 1848. A committee of inquiry produced a report that was non-committal of Brown's guilt. Macdonald's accusations and subsequent investigation caused

4929-442: The deadlock in the legislature. Brown, MacDonald, Taché, and George-Étienne Cartier agreed to form an administration later called the Great Coalition to seek a federal union with the Atlantic provinces . Brown became the president of the council, a cabinet-level position, under the premiership of Taché. Brown attended the Charlottetown Conference where Canadian delegates outlined their proposal for Canadian Confederation with

5022-471: The defence of British North America from possible American invasion. Brown realized that satisfaction for Canada West could only be achieved with the support of the French-speaking majority of Canada East. In his speech in support of Confederation in the Legislature of the Province of Canada on February 8, 1865, he spoke glowingly of the prospects for Canada's future, and he insisted that "whether we ask for parliamentary reform for Canada alone or in union with

5115-433: The election as an independent Reform candidate, defeating Arthur Rankin , the Reformer's ministry-approved candidate, and a Tory opponent. Brown supported an administration led by Hincks and Augustin-Norbert Morin as successors to the Baldin-Lafontaine government, though he criticised the government for abandoning liberal ideals. Brown worked to end state support for religious institutions, opposed government funding for

5208-422: The entire 1861 parliamentary session. An election took place later that year, in which the Toronto Reform Association nominated Brown to be their candidate in the constituency of Toronto East. Brown struggled to campaign, with his health not fully recovered, although he returned to giving passionate speeches by the end of the campaign. He also struggled with having accomplished few of his proposed policies while he

5301-418: The family lived in a rented home on Varick Street . When the store grew larger, George travelled to New England, upstate New York, and Canada to continue growing their business. In July 1842 Peter published the first edition of a newspaper called the British Chronicle , which advocated a Whig - Liberal political ideology and published articles on British news and politics. As circulation increased in Canada,

5394-408: The first government inspectors to be employed in this role. In October 1853 The Globe started printing new issues daily and claimed that the paper had the largest circulation in British North America . In 1848, Reformers won the majority of seats in the Province of Canada legislature and an administration was formed with Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine serving as co-premiers. By

5487-523: The following session of parliament, Baldwin and Lafontaine announced their retirement from politics, and Hincks assumed leadership of the western Reform movement. Hincks renewed his rivalry with Brown, criticising the Globe for opposing state support for religious institutions. In the fall of 1851, Brown bought agricultural land in Kent county , Upper Canada, to begin work as a farmer. Later that year, Reformers in Kent county, including Alexander Mackenzie and Archibald McKellar , encouraged Brown to run in

5580-406: The following year, two factions formed among the Reformers over disagreements among secularising clergy reserves , whether the Province of Canada should be annexed by the United States, and how much influence should be given to Reformers who participated in the Upper Canada Rebellion . Brown remained aligned with the Reform party while others split off to form the Clear Grit movement. He joined

5673-532: The following year. He supported Mackenzie when Edward Blake and the Canada First movement expressed their frustrations with Mackenzie's leadership. His attendance in the senate was sporadic as he focused on the business affairs at his ranch. He travelled to England in February 1876 to raise capital to create a new company based on raising cattle, and obtained a charter for the new company upon his return to Canada in May. His company struggled to be financially successful and two fires in December 1879 destroyed many of

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5766-501: The governor-general of the province, Charles Metcalfe , prorogued the Reform-dominated Canadian assembly when several Reform politicians resigned from the government. George published an editorial on December 15 that was critical of the governor-general's actions. In the subsequent weeks, Banner published editorials that disputed political accusations against Reformers and called for unity behind Liberal candidates in future elections. In 1844, Reformers were concerned that Tories, in

5859-440: The grievances and anger of Upper Canada (Ontario). He played a major role in securing national unity. His career in active politics faltered after 1865, but he remained a powerful spokesman for the Liberal Party . He promoted westward expansion and opposed the policies of Conservative Prime Minister John A. Macdonald . George Brown was born in Alloa , Clackmannanshire , Scotland on November 29, 1818. His father, Peter Brown, ran

5952-405: The legislature rejected Ottawa as the new permanent capital of the province. Edmund Walker Head , the governor-general of Canada, asked Brown to form a new administration. Brown did not have a majority of support in the legislature, and he negotiated a cabinet under a co-premiership with Antoine-Aimé Dorion . Brown and the other members of his cabinet resigned their seats in parliament to run in

6045-415: The man, so asked him to speak with the foreman. The two men argued and Bennett pulled out a gun. Brown grabbed for the gun, but it fired a bullet into Brown's thigh. Bennett was secured by other men and the wound was deemed minor. Brown left the office and stayed in his Toronto home to recover. His leg became infected and he obtained a fever and delirium . On May 9, 1880, Brown died in his Toronto home. Brown

6138-429: The others being Stéphane Dion and the latter's immediate successor Michael Ignatieff . He may be said to have served in the national politics of what developed as the affairs of three nationalities: Canadian, British, and Irish. Blake was also the founder, in 1856, of the Canadian law firm now known as Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP . Blake was born in 1833, in Adelaide Township , Middlesex County , Upper Canada ,

6231-411: The paper devoted articles to the political news in the Province of Canada . George became the paper's publisher in March 1843 and travelled to New England, upstate New York, and Canada to promote the paper. While in Canada, Brown spoke with politicians and editors in Toronto , Kingston , and Montreal . Brown might have also been writing articles for the paper; J.M.S. Careless , a historian, notes that

6324-499: The parliament, their position was weak and only a few votes against the government could cause it to be disbanded. Even though Brown was defeated, he was still seen as a leader of the Liberal movement in Western Canada and inquired with his Liberal eastern counterparts about forming a government should the Conservative coalition be defeated. When his inquiries were rejected, Brown used the opportunity to withdraw from public life, refusing requests to speak at rallies. In 1862 Brown's illness

6417-433: The power exerted by the Catholic population of Canada East over the affairs of a predominately anglophone and Protestant Canada West. However, he did not want the dissolution of the Canadas as much of Canada West's trade went through Canada East along the St. Lawrence River, and splitting the union would give the eastern province control over the waterway before they entered Canada West. In 1855, Brown organised and provided

6510-507: The province. George convinced his father to move to Canada and they published the last issue of the British Chronicle on July 22, 1843. George and Peter rented a storefront in Toronto and on August 18, 1843, they published the first edition a new paper called Banner . George managed the secular department of the newspaper, commenting on non-religious issues. Banner initially did not commit to any political causes, although it supported many policies advocated by Reformers . This changed when

6603-458: The provincial government would remove local concerns from the federal government, which he thought were more politically divisive. He also argued for an appointed Senate because he saw upper houses as inherently conservative and believed they protected the interests of the rich. He wished to deny the Senate the legitimacy and power that naturally follow with an electoral mandate. He was also concerned that two elected legislative bodies could create

6696-508: The river. When choosing how to transport their goods, farmers to the west of Upper Canada might use the Erie Canal in the United States instead (as this route would have one set of rules) and potentially setting up American annexation of those lands. Instead, Brown wanted a federal union that would have jurisdiction over joint concerns while each section would create laws for their own territory. Brown advocated for representation by population as

6789-635: The ruling of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Long v The Bishop of Cape Town , Blake offered a legal opinion to Benjamin Cronyn (then Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Huron ) on the legality of the convening of a Provincial Synod of the various Dioceses of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada by Francis Fulford (then Bishop of Montreal and Metropolitan of Canada). He determined that

6882-625: The side of the provinces. Edward Blake married Margaret Cronyn, the daughter of Benjamin Cronyn and Margaret Ann (Bickerstaff), in 1856. She was born in 1835 and was educated at London, Ontario and in Toronto . Mrs. Blake practiced benevolent and other useful work. She was a member of the Toronto Ladies' Educational Association and served as the Honorary President of the Canadian Branch of

6975-403: The son of William Hume Blake and Catherine Honoria Hume, and was educated at Upper Canada College . In 1856, after Blake was called to the bar , he entered into partnership with Stephen M. Jarvis in Toronto to practice law. When his brother Samuel Hume Blake joined soon thereafter, the firm became Blake & Blake. Today it is known as Blake, Cassels & Graydon . As a consequence of

7068-493: The southwestern region. In 1846, Brown began publishing the Globe semi-weekly, proclaiming that he was the first Reform-newspaper in Toronto to do so. During the 1848 Province of Canada legislative election, Hincks was in Montreal attending to business concerns and did not go to Oxford county to campaign for his re-election as the constituency's representative. Brown spoke at the nomination meeting on Hincks's behalf and Hincks

7161-486: The upcoming Canadian parliament election for the constituency of Kent county. Brown accepted their offer and was nominated as a Reform candidate, even though he planned to campaign against the current Reform ministry's state support for religious institutions. He also campaigned in support of representation by population, free trade agreements with British colonies and the United States, and the development of transportation infrastructures like rail lines and canals. Brown won

7254-489: The upcoming election for the legislature of the Province of Canada, would appeal to the citizen's sense of loyalty to the British monarch and thus not vote for Reformers. They wanted to establish newspapers that would publish their ideas and offered Brown £250 (equivalent to £32,000 in 2023) to begin a new paper. In March, Brown published the first issue of The Globe as its editor and publisher. Two months later, Brown bought

7347-418: The vote and Brown was able to convince the majority of Reformers to support his resolution. Brown continued operating and investing in business ventures throughout Upper Canada. In the Globe he announced a new layout for the paper that allowed more text to be printed on each page; this was made possible by investments into new, copper-faced type. In Kent he sold some of the acres of land at his property and

7440-581: Was a British-Canadian journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation . He attended the Charlottetown (September 1864) and Quebec (October 1864) conferences. A noted Reform politician, he is best known as the founder and editor of the Toronto Globe , Canada's most influential newspaper at the time, and his leadership in the founding of the Liberal Party in 1867. He was an articulate champion of

7533-439: Was a legislator. His Conservative opponent, John Willoughby Crawford , also campaigned on similar policies to those that Brown advocated for, stating that if elected he would be a member of the ruling party and could accomplish policies that Brown struggled with as an opposition legislator. Crawford won the election, ending Brown's tenure as a legislator. Although Conservative factions successfully won another majority of seats in

7626-817: Was against giving state money to religions in clergy reserves , he was willing to tolerate it in order to maintain an allegiance between the Upper Canadian Reformers and French Canadian Catholic Reformers. Brown was against slavery and believed that the largest fault of the United States was the enslavement of people in American southern states. He was part of the Elgin Association, a group of mostly Free Kirk people that purchased land in Kent county for escaped slaves to live on. He also wrote editorials in The Globe defending

7719-455: Was buried at Toronto Necropolis . Bennett was subsequently charged and hanged. His wife, Anne Nelson, returned to Scotland thereafter where she died in 1906. She is buried on the southern terrace of Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh . The grave also commemorates George Brown. In 1885 his daughters Margaret and Catherine were two of the first women to graduate from the University of Toronto. Brown

7812-589: Was called because of his short appointment to the cabinet during the Brown-Dorion administration. Brown toured the province, giving speeches at various Reform gatherings that denounced the Cartier-Macdonald administration. In the 1859 Toronto mayoral election, the first where the electorate would directly vote for mayor, Brown organised the Municipal Reform Association to nominate Adam Wilson as

7905-721: Was called to the bar in 1897, becoming the first woman lawyer in Ontario and the British Empire. In 1953, the firm's name was changed to Blake, Cassels & Graydon. In 1998, the firm opened an office in Beijing . In 2003, Blakes created the Daily Bread Toronto Law Firm Challenge, which engages a number of Toronto law firms to raise money for the Daily Bread Food Bank . In 2012, Blakes donated C$ 383,000 to

7998-552: Was claiming the right to issue timber licenses. This speech was quoted in its entirety in the 1960 report of the Quebec Royal Commission of Inquiry on Constitutional Problems , which influenced many Quebecers, including René Lévesque : The word federal is the key which unlocks the clauses and reveals their contents. It is the glass that enables us to discern what is written. By its light the Act must be construed ... What then

8091-509: Was part of a delegation sent to London to continue discussions about confederation with British officials. The British government agreed to support Canadian confederation, defend Canada if attacked by the US, and help with establishing a new trade agreement with the US. In September, Galt and Brown represented the Province of Canada at the Confederate Trade Council, a meeting of Canadian colonies to negotiate common trade policies after

8184-637: Was raised as a member of the Church of Scotland . Canadian historian J. M. S. Careless described the family's faith as further from the Calvinist interpretation of the bible and more closely followed the tenets of the evangelical movement of the 1800s. Brown advocated for a Puritan separation between politics and religion; he believed that political liberty could only be achieved if religious institutions were not involved in politics, and while he believed everyone should be Christian, he thought political institutions should not influence religion. In 1850, although he

8277-589: Was still affecting him and he decided to recover in Great Britain. He spent a month in London; while there he had a chance meeting with Tom Nelson, a schoolmate of his in Royal High School. Nelson convinced Brown to visit him in Edinburgh, where he met his sister Anne. Brown moved to a location close to the Nelson home, and began courting Anne. Five weeks after their first meeting, on November 27, they were wed at

8370-421: Was successfully reelected. Reformers won the majority of seats in the election to form an administration led by Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine . In July 1848 Brown and his father closed the Banner to focus on expanding The Globe and their publishing business. In the summer of 1848, Brown was appointed by the administration to lead a Royal Commission to examine accusations of official misconduct in

8463-419: Was the design, I say, ... by gentle and considerate terms to preserve the vital breath and continue the political existence of the old provinces. However this may be, they were being made, as has been well said, not fractions of a unit but units of a multiple. The Dominion is the multiple and each province is a unit of that multiple ... He won the case, and the Privy Council consistently afterwards took

8556-499: Was the general scheme of this Act? First of all, as I suggest, it was to create a federal as distinguished from a legislative union, but a union composed of several existing and continuing entities. It was not the intention of Parliament to mutilate, confound and destroy the provinces mentioned in the preamble, and having from their mangled remains stewed in some legislative cauldron, to evoke by some legislative incantation absolutely new provinces into an absolutely new existence ... it

8649-413: Was unfamiliar with the riding's concerns. Brown won the by-election and returned to a leadership position within the Reform party. He won re-election during the July 1863 general election, and Reformers won the majority of seats in Canada West while Conservatives won the majority of seats in Canada East. This created a deadlock in the legislature that made governing the province difficult. Brown proposed

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